12 accepted papers
Magnetic soft continuum robots are capable of bending with remote control in confined space environments, and they have been applied in various bioengineering contexts. As one type of ferromagnetic soft continuums, the Magnetically Induced Metamorphic Materials (MIMMs)-based continuum (MC) exhibits
Accurate and safe medication recommendations are critical for effective clinical decision-making, especially in multimorbidity cases. However, existing systems rely on point-wise prediction paradigms that overlook synergistic drug effects and potential adverse drug-drug interactions (DDIs). We prop…
To adapt large language models (LLMs) to ranking tasks, existing list-wise methods, represented by list-wise Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), focus on optimizing partial-order or full-order list ranking consistency for LLMs to enhance their ranking abilities.However, we argue that optimizing to…
Most recommender systems focus on short-term objectives such as click-through rate, often at the expense of long-term user satisfaction. This can lead to echo chambers, where users are repeatedly exposed to redundant content. While recent efforts integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into recommend
Multi-Objective Alignment (MOA) aims to align LLMs’ responses with multiple human preference objectives, with Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) emerging as a prominent approach. However, we find that DPO-based MOA approaches suffer from widespread preference conflicts in the data, where different…
Adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) for agent tasks is critical in developing language agents. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is a promising technique for this adaptation with the alleviation of compounding errors, offering a means to directly optimize Reinforcement Learning (RL) objectives.…
Angle of Arrival (AoA) estimation based on Constant Tone Extension (CTE) signals in Bluetooth 5 suffers from carrier frequency offsets (CFO) arising from the carrier frequency mismatch between the receiver and the transmitter, extra noises coming from switching frequencies when sampling CTE signals,…
Bluetooth 5 employs Constant Tone Extension (CTE) signals to simulate arrival times of a common signal at multiple antennas, but incurs limited accuracy due to inevitable frequency offsets caused by Gaussian frequency shift keying (GFSK) and time offsets caused by antenna switching. To address this…
Selection bias hinders recommendation models from learning unbiased user preference. Recent works empirically reveal that pursuing invariant user and item representation across biased and unbiased data is crucial for counteracting selection bias. However, our theoretical analysis reveals that simply…
This study reveals the inherent tolerance of contrastive learning (CL) towards sampling bias, wherein negative samples may encompass similar semantics (\eg labels). However, existing theories fall short in providing explanations for this phenomenon. We bridge this research gap by analyzing CL throug…
Angle of arrival (AoA) and angle of departure (AoD) are introduced in Bluetooth 5 to better support indoor localization and tracking. However, the performance of AoA estimation using Bluetooth 5 is not thoroughly understood at present. In this paper, a Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) model, taking int…
In this paper, we propose a novel clustered multitask diffusion RLS (MT-DRLS) algorithm over network to further improve the performance of its counterpart, the multitask diffusion LMS (MT-DLMS) algorithm. Its transient behavior is investigated, in the mean and mean-square error sense. Simulation res…